Trader RP crew members

[Tenacity]

I would assume that, due to computer and mechanical automation, fewer crew are needed on the large vessels than most players here believe.

For example, people keep saying "real life gunboats have 300 crew!!!" - while a lot of players here believe that the gunboats in the mod only take maybe one or two dozen at the most.

For a transport, I would assume few crew members are needed - primarily command and maintenance crew. You dont need a bunch of extra people performing redundant tasks on the ship, and the 'loading/unloading' jobs would be reserved for people working on the planets/stations you trade with.

Also, you listed:

1 command officer/pilot
1 navigations officer/co-pilot
1 weapons systems officer
2 weapons system operators (manning turrets or possibly groups of turrets)/ cargo loaders
1 payload specialist/various odd jobs

I'd double or triple that. If you think about it, realistically it would take days to make some of the longer trade runs in the game - do you really expect a single pilot, or a single nav officer, to stay awake that long? I'd say you'd have several crew members for each job so they can take shifts - either two per job for 12 hour shifts, or 3 per job for 8 hour shifts.

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